"It's almost there, there are more than thirty days left," Wang Ju replied in a plain tone.

"Oh," Zhao Niannu stood on tiptoe and said lightly.

Both of them looked very calm, but Zhao Xu felt a little sore in his teeth.

This question is very complicated, more complicated than what Wang Ju said about hereditary, so Wang Ju turned to the topic again, pointing to the quilt and said: "In fact, it will be mainly used in the future."

"Civil use? It's probably impossible." Zhao Xu said.

How to say it, there is a traffic problem.

These quilts and jackets were sent to serve as a sample to open up sales next year. But in fact, it cost a lot of money to quickly transport them to the capital for display.

For large-scale transportation, if you are on Guangnan West Road, you can only go from Lingqu, then from Xiangshui to the Yangtze River, then from the Yangtze River to the Grand Canal, and reach all parts of the north, the travel fee is still quite high, even if you are taking waterways, even the Lingqu will have to be rebuilt.

If you are on Guangnan East Road, it seems that it is very cost-effective to take the sea route, but the fact is that the current ships are sailing ships and must wait for the monsoon. Except for some small boats sailing nearby, these large ships carrying cargo can only go back and forth once a year.

For example, when merchants from Hangzhou went to Japan to go to Japan, a boat went to Japan along the monsoon, then traded goods, and then purchased goods, and waited for the monsoon. After a long time, many merchants got married and had children in Japan. There was a family in Hangzhou and a family in Japan. In fact, there were many people in Japan who had the blood of Han people in their blood, but Wang Ju did not take it seriously. Just like he looked at Jiaozhi, he never regarded Jiaozhi as Han people, even though the family was separated for a short time.

Therefore, this time is a bit annoying. Although the navigation speed will be very fast, it is said that it only takes five days to go from Hangzhou to Japan to the wind. However, due to the monsoon, it can only be back and forth once a year. The cost is not as low as possible. After all, a sea ship is not cheap, and it has to be repaired and maintained every two or three years.

But there is no need to worry about profits, because the price is too expensive.

It is precisely because of this price that the court will also benefit in the future.

Wang Ju replied: "If it is only in Guangdong and Guangxi, it is unlikely that the people will use it normally. At most, some fourth-class households have some quilts and jackets. However, this kind of kapok seed is different from the kapok seeds in the Western Regions."

“What’s the difference?”

"The kapok seeds in the Western Regions are very similar to Dashi. The cotton wool is long and suitable for weaving. Therefore, Dashi cloth is very famous. However, they are all distributed in the Gobi area, with sufficient sunshine and little rain. Therefore, this cotton seed is not suitable for promotion inland. However, the kapok seeds in Lingnan live in rainy season areas. Therefore, they can gradually move northward."

"Central Plains..."

"It's the Central Plains. However, there is an adaptation process that you must go from Fujian Road to Bashu and gradually move north to the Central Plains. Otherwise, you may not be able to survive by moving the kapok seeds to the Central Plains. Even if you can live, you will grow very short, with more cotton seeds and less cotton, and there will be little profit. This is only moderately guided by the court, and decades will be enough. But it's the future. Once you officially carry the seeds, your Majesty can still be like this now? And you have to go through the sea. There are many risks. There may not be many scholars and officials in the court who can truly love the people as much as their children, but they like to use their lives to make a fuss. Therefore, you must think of other plans."

"He plans?" Zhao Xu said confused. Who should pay attention to the place in Lingnan?

"There are many water in Lingnan, such as Longchuan River, Shixing Water. Its upstream is almost within Jiangnan West Road and Jinghu South Road, and its source cannot be navigated. However, these rivers can be navigated in the middle reaches, and the shipping capacity is amazing. Therefore, some roads can be built without having to be built for long. The shortest one hundred miles and the long one is more than 200 miles, you can communicate with Ganshui, Leishui and Xiangshui. If it was originally unlikely, it would be fine now. Although you pass through some mountainous areas of Wuling, there is gunpowder now. And once the kapok is promoted, there will be this finance. The country does not need to allocate a penny, and many water conservancy roads can be completed. Your Majesty, have you noticed that I am facing another crisis?"

"There are too many crises, I wonder which point you are referring to?"

"The population is densely populated, and our dynasty established three million households, but now there are more than 13 million households. Perhaps there are more hidden households during the Tianbao period, and the separation of people is not as serious as that of our dynasty. But I believe that no matter what, our dynasty has more than 13 million households, which is enough to be comparable to the less than 9 million households in Tianbao."

This problem is very serious.

You should know how large the area of ​​the Tang Dynasty in the early Tianbao period? Even the effective control area was much larger than that of the Song Dynasty.

Moreover, the Song Dynasty had only been established for a few years. If we were to unify the Southern Tang Dynasty, it would only be ninety years, and if we were to unify Fujian, Zhejiang, and northern Han Dynasty, it would only be eighty years!

In such a short time, the population has more than quadrupled!

Zhao Xu didn't know that he would live a short life, so he planned to live in his fifties and be an emperor for more than 30 years. Then by the end of his life, the population would be close to 20 million households.

Could it be that people across the country can learn from Fujian Road and drown their second and third children?

"Your Majesty, it's really serious." Zhao Niannu also said from the side.

Zhao Xu couldn't help but scratch his head. The large population is also a reflection of good internal governance, but once the population of the Song Dynasty reached 20 million households, the problem would be more concentrated.

Even if the population is handled well, the population will continue to develop. What will it be in another fifty years? What will it be in another hundred years? The Song Dynasty cannot have even had two hundred years of foundation.

"Your Majesty, how many people can Jiangdongwei squeeze? How many people can silted in the north? Therefore, the population is a big crisis. But what about looking at Guangdong and Guangxi? The area is equivalent to one-sixth of our dynasty. The number of households in the Ministry of Revenue is less than 400,000, including barbarians. Where is it not demonized, it is actually a good place with plenty of rain and three years of maturity. If it is like the rumors, then wouldn't Jiaozhi people be further south? Wouldn't Chameng go south? If the road water conservancy is built, at least the pressure from the two densely populated areas of Fujian Road and Jiangnan West Road will be evacuated."

Whether it can be made is this cotton.

A simple truth: How to build roads and water conservancy without money?

If there is no money, how can officials support it and how can the people go there enthusiastically?

“So that’s so important.”

"That is, food, clothing, housing and transportation, clothing are the first priority."

"If that's the best, but what to do in the north?"

"If you think about the north, this cotton is more important. You can only survive the cold in the north. But the north is even more troublesome..."

Zhao Xu remained silent.

So what if you resist the cold in the north? Yan Yun can't even take it back, so don't say it's going further north.

The worst thing is that when Emperor Zhenzong of Song signed the Chanyuan Alliance, he took a small advantage and became the eldest brother of Emperor Shengzong of Liao. However, in his generation, the Emperor of Liao became his uncle! He was all shorter anyway. If it weren't for the Han nationality, the Liao Kingdom was the real China (China, referring to an orthodox country).

In fact, the Northern King Ju really has a way to solve it, but that is really troublesome, more troublesome than Zhao Xu thought. Of course, if it is solved well, it may be done once and for all.

It’s nothing else, it’s good to say that China is good. That’s wrong, and the actual terrain is also bad. For example, in the Nanliang Qiuchi’s book on “Book of Chen Bo”, there is a sentence in late spring, in March, the grass in the south of the Yangtze River grows, peanut trees, and warblers fly around.

How beautiful the sentences are.

In fact, when future generations read this sentence, they often ignore the situation in Jiangnan at that time, because Jiangdongwei and Taihu Lake have not been built in large quantities, and Jiangnan has mostly swamp terrain. There are ditches and lakes, wild grasses and miscellaneous trees. There are few people, and some situations are like the swamp scenery he watched in American horror movies in later generations.

It was not until Jiangdongwei and Taihuwei that there was a delicate and beautiful style of slanting wind and drizzle, pavilions, towers, and small bridges and flowing water.

It is not that the earth has given the people this wealthy place, but that a group of hard-working people have turned the sea into mulberry fields.

It can only be said that there is one advantage, because the distance between the Palacioles will not cause serious conflicts with Western civilization.

But the main conflict was not the conflict between the Han, barbarians, and Han and Fan, but the conflict between agricultural civilization and nomadic civilization. The ancients had the restraint that the ancients knew. However, if they were themselves, if they could conquer the north, then they would have the ability to make agricultural civilization the north, at least the mainstream of the northeast.

Then there will be Genghis Khan, and the Central Plains civilization will be gone.

But it's really hard.

Zhao Xu must not know Wang Ju's idea. He looked again, saw the end and asked again: "Wang Ju, how much will this yield be?"

"Your Majesty, I just heard that I can tell you where I can tell. But there will be about 40 or 50 kilograms per acre."

Wang Ju was not sure. It should not be bad. First of all, this method of transferring and loading of nutrient bowls is very advanced, and secondly, it is mostly fertile and has been silted fields that have not been cultivated for thousands of years. There will be no need to worry about insufficient fertility. Finally, it will be transferred to Guangnan, and there will be no situation where the environment is not suitable for the environment.

"That's much better than Ma."

"It is definitely better than the profit of planting hemp. Even if it is popularized in the future, it will be far better than the profit of planting hemp. After all, hemp can only obtain hemp skin. But planting it is a little tiring than planting hemp, but it is much better than planting mulberry."

Among these textile industries, the mulberry silk industry is the most tiring. Picking mulberry leaves in spring is a tiring job, and then you have to draw silk, which is also tiring. After drawing silk, you also have to weave threads and fabrics.

However, this made Wang Ju think of a saying, there was a saying in his previous life that what Chinese buy will be expensive, and what Chinese sell will be cheaper.

The population is too large, the amount is large, and the amount is also large.

Just like this silk, among all the price ratios of the Song Dynasty, the cheapest thing was not gold and silver, but silk. A top-quality silk was less than two stakes, and some small silk was only a few hundred sq. One was ten square abbot and one hundred square meters. How much would it be worth in the future? Why are there too many people planting mulberry trees and raising silkworms!

Once cotton is ordinary, the most impact is mulberry and hemp. However, this will be an amazing progress, but I just thought that it was also very far away at that time.

Walk out of Xiangguo Temple.

Zhao Xu suddenly said, "I heard something in the palace, but I don't know whether it is true or false."

"What's the matter?"

"Han Qi was worshiping Confucius and Xuanwang Temple in Xiangzhou. He stayed overnight. Several thieves broke in and raised their swords and said, "We cannot help ourselves, so I want to help you." Han Qi said, "The table table is worth hundreds of thousands, and I can give them to you." The thief also said, "I wish to get the head of the king to offer it to the Westerners." Han Qi immediately bowed his head and said, "I heard that the public is extremely moral and worthy of others, so I came to try it out. Sure enough, since the president gave the table table, I took them away, and I hope you will not leak it."

"This is a rumor," Zhao Niannu said suspiciously.

Nothing else, even though Han Qi went down, Zhao Xu gave him the right to enter and exit the Prime Minister in order to appease Han Qi. Even when he arrived in Xiangzhou, he was also under strict protection. So how could a few thieves touch the bed?

Wang Ju thought about it and said, "It may not be fake. Hebei has a severe drought, including Xiangzhou. I snatched a break from the city the day before yesterday and went around. There were still some refugees from Hebei outside the city. Then I talked to them. The situation was very bad, and countless people were selling their children. Winter is coming again, and the hungry village is in trouble. Some people are brave and can do anything."

"Disaster victims..."

"Your Majesty, don't worry. As long as you are willing to survive this year, the situation will gradually improve next year. Besides, your Majesty, look at the snow on the ground. I believe there will be no drought next year."

"I hope so."

This is the real father’s debt and son’s debts!

"Your Majesty, you will be fine. Think about it, with this thing, the benefits of the internal treasury next year, the year after tomorrow."

You have to eat the rice bit by bit.

Zhao Xu's expression improved a little. He patted Wang Ju's shoulder and said, "You are raining in time."

Timely rain? Wang Jushang is dripping, so I don’t want to be Brother Song Jiang…

Zhao Xu asked again: "Wang Qing, how much profit will there be next year?" (To be continued)

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Chapter completed!